Congratulations to Sean Collins for being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST). Below is a picture of Sean winning the group’s hot wing eating contest.
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Jul 20
July 2016 – Peter presents at the Applications of Topological Methods in Materials Science meeting in Russia
Peter Boyd, presented an invited talk at the “Applications of topological methods in materials science” International workshop in Samara, Russia, July 1-4, 2016. Peter presented the talk “A Novel Method for Constructing Nano Porous Materials from Labelled Quotient Graphs” . As well, he ran a practical tutorial on the group’s TOBASSCO (TOpology BASed Crystal COnstructor) package.
Jul 20
June 2016 – Woo wins the inaugural Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zielger Award
Woo was awarded the first every Tom Ziegler Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. The award, sponsored by Scientific Computing & Modelling NV, is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to computational or theoretical chemistry while working in Canada. Woo’s Award talk was titled “A Computational Chemist’s Curious Course …
Jul 20
June 2016 – Group attends Canadian Society for Chemistry National meeting in Halifax
Mykhaylo, Sean, Evans, Tom B, Hanna, and Woo attended the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Halifax (June 5-9th). The following poster and oral presentations were given: “FA3PS: A Fully Automated Computational Tool to Predict, Analyze and Optimize the Adsorption Properties of Nanoporous Materials “(Poster) Collins SP, Daff TD, Burns TD, Boyd PG, Lo JW, Woo TK “Guiding the Design of …
Jul 20
July 2015 – Congratulations to Peter for Successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis – Off to Berkeley
Congratulations to Peter Boyd for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis “Computational High Throughput Screening of Metal Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Applications”. Peter is off to UC Berkeley to work with Berend Smit.
Jul 14
April 2015 – Hana wins the department’s best undergraduate thesis award!
Congratulations to Hana for winning the department of Chemistry’s best undergraduate thesis award. She was also awarded the Hypercube Scholar award for the best thesis involving theoretical or computational chemistry.